Evaluation of the bag-mediated filtration system as a novel tool for poliovirus environmental surveillance: Results from a comparative field study in Pakistan.

Poliovirus (PV) environmental surveillance (ES) plays an important role in the global eradication program and is crucial for monitoring silent PV circulation especially as clinical cases decrease. This study compared ES results using the novel bag-mediated filtration system (BMFS) with the current t...

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Main Authors: Nicolette Angela Zhou, Christine Susan Fagnant-Sperati, Jeffry Hiroshi Shirai, Salmaan Sharif, Sohail Zahoor Zaidi, Lubna Rehman, Jaffer Hussain, Rahim Agha, Shahzad Shaukat, Masroor Alam, Adnan Khurshid, Ghulam Mujtaba, Muhammed Salman, Rana Muhammed Safdar, Abdirahman Mahamud, Jamal Ahmed, Sadaf Khan, Alexandra Lynn Kossik, Nicola Koren Beck, Graciela Matrajt, Humayun Asghar, Ananda Sankar Bandyopadhyay, David Scott Boyle, John Scott Meschke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200551&type=printable
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